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Due to the ostensible neutrality of Laos, guaranteed by the Geneva Conference of 1954 and 1962, both the U.S. and North Vietnam strove to maintain the secrecy of their operations and only slowly escalated military actions there. [2] In 1975, Laos emerged from nine years of war as devastated as any of the other Asian participants in the Vietnam War.
The U.S. dropped over 2 million tons on Laos between 1964 and 1973, making Laos the most heavily bombed country in history relative to the size of its population. [45] The U.S. State Department's analysis has determined that about 30% of all bombs dropped on Laos failed to detonate.
Laos became the most bombed nation in history, largely due to the Raven FACs. Approximately the same tonnage of bombs were dropped on Laos as were dropped by the US in the entirety of World War II. Approximately 20% of the Laotian populace became refugees, largely relocating because of bombing.
A new initiative is aimed at raising awareness about a dark and often forgotten chapter of U.S. history: the secret bombing of Laos during the Vietnam War.
The US dropped more than 270 million bombs on Laos during the Vietnam War. In many villages, these bombs have become a staple part of the landscape.
Lima Site 85 (LS-85 alphanumeric code of the phonetic 1st letter used to conceal this covert operation [3]) was a clandestine military installation in the Royal Kingdom of Laos guarded by the Hmong "Secret Army", the Central Intelligence Agency, and the United States Air Force used for Vietnam War covert operations against communist targets in ostensibly neutral Laos under attack by the ...
The U.S. announced on Tuesday it would provide an additional $90 million over the next three years to help Laos, heavily bombed during the Vietnam War.
Laos was a site of the Ho Chi Minh trail used by North Vietnam. [3] Laos was also bombed by South Vietnamese and American forces due to North Vietnamese occupation of eastern Laos. [4] Laos contains Vietnamese soldiers stationed there since Vietnam and Laos signed a treaty to create a united sphere and to support repair after the Laotian Civil ...